In establishing what pesticides are currently found in the food products consumed in UK, both home grown and imported produce, is a significant component ... of pesticides during production or storage, must however be put in the context of the impact ...united kingdom

and not operating their expensive equipment appropriately. pesticides were detected at least ... that they are the highest in the UK and they show a slightly increasing trend (Institute of Hydrology ...united kingdom

Malaysia is amending its agrochemical legislation to impose stricter controls to prevent the sale and use of unapproved pesticides. The changes form part of the Pesticides (Amendment) Bill 2004, which will update the existing Pesticides Act 1974 ... Chapter 5: Australasia World Crop Protection Markets Table 5.15: Malaysian agrochemical sales, 1994-2003 (RM million, by product type) % change Herbicides ... figures may not add due to rounding; public health pesticides accounted for sales

Global sales of pesticides in 2004 amounted to $32.2 billion.(11) As in the preceding years Bayer and BASF were positioned among the companies with the highest proportion of global pesticide market.(12) Last year Syngenta was surpassed by Bayer ... Table 4. Turnover in 2004 of the six leading agrochemical companies (3) Company Bayer Syngenta BASF Dow Chemical Monsanto DuPont Rank Turnover (million US$) ... china, germany, united kingdom, united states

that it is pulling out of the European www.etcgroup.org Agrochemical Industry • The global agrochemical market in 2002 was $27, 800 million.71 • The top 6 pesticide firms ... in the United Kingdom found that none would be willing to cover farmers growing GM crops ... cereal business, and will abandon efforts to produce pharmaceuticals in GM crops.69 Global Agrochemical Market Share (2002) Syngenta Others Bayer Dupont Monsanto Dow BASF Source: ETC Group, based on data provided by Agrow World Crop

AgBioForum 4(1): Zeneca Agrochemicals ... Table 1. Key Figures for Agrochemicals (Million GBP). ... for Agriculture project (or PITA), Zeneca was the third largest producer of agrochemicals, after Novartis and Monsanto. Zeneca Agrochemicals was one of the constituent parts of AstraZeneca, together with AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals. The Dutch/British seed

Table 16. Estimated tonnes of selected plastic waste produced in the UK, England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland in tonnes per year (1998). Source: Defra (2003b) Northern Ireland UK total England Wales Scotland Greenhouse and tunnel film ... development of diseases coming from the soil, thus reducing the amount of pesticides used ... ireland, scotland, united kingdom